offboard
Leave the ship
Offboard means to remove or transition someone or something out of a system, organization, or platform.
In business, offboarding is the process of managing an employee's departure—handling exit interviews, revoking access, transferring knowledge: HR will offboard her on Friday.
In technology, to offboard data is to move it off a device or service.
The term mirrors onboard, which brings things in rather than out.
Exit a vehicle
- alightTo descend and settle
- deplaneExit an aircraft
- detrainExit railway transport
- deboardExit a vehicle
exit · unload · landing · arrival · docking · passengers · terminal · gangway
Foreign-bound sale
- downloadRemote-to-local data transfer
- transferMove between locations
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
Termination pay or disconnection
- transitionChange from one state
- outplacementJob-search help for terminated employees
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
Reducing workforce or scale
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- retrenchmentReduction of expenditures
- furloughGranted absence from work
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
disembark
Exit a vehicle
deboard · exit · unload · landing · arrival · docking · passengers · terminal · gangway · platform
export
Foreign-bound sale
- downloadRemote-to-local data transfer
- transferMove between locations
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
severance
Termination pay or disconnection
- transitionChange from one state
- outplacementJob-search help for terminated employees
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
downsizing
Reducing workforce or scale
- redundancyNeedless duplication
- retrenchmentReduction of expenditures
- furloughGranted absence from work
- buzzwordssynergy, leverage, paradigm, stakeholder, scalable
- office jargonsynergy, circle back, touch base, deep dive, action item
- corporate jargonsynergy, stakeholders, deep dive, circle back, leverage
- startup jargonMVP, fail fast, scaling, unicorn, disrupt